Hi Gamester! (Cyberace1?) Gamester (one of the project managers of XBMC) is hardly an impartial observer. There are a number of features that Plex has that XBMC does not, and many report it to be more stable on their Macs. Not to mention he keeps misspelling my last name, which is "Feingold".
Come to the Plex forums (forums.plexapp.com) or download Plex to compare for yourself, but take his statements (posted under a pseudonym) with a grain of salt.
We liked what we saw when we were looking for a similar thing. It's not cheap, but it's much cheaper than comparable stuff, and it runs well. We had an eval cluster and they worked like a champ.
...produces awesome material. I started with a course on the history of evolution, and then took another one on biological anthropology, and I have to say, it was the first time ever that I found myself desiring a longer commute!!!
Monkeys (and prosimians, their ancestors -- like a ring-tailed lemur) are not generally considered big tool users. Apes, however, are. Chimps use sticks to fish for termites, and in some cases have been taught to interact with a computer (matching symbols with pictures, for example).
The thing I've found is that if you type extremely quickly, and especially two of the same letter in a row, the Vaios are likely to miss the second keystroke. I thought it was a problem with my laptop, but the other ones in the store suffered from that problem as well.
"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation. This difference in memory management performance is very significant to enterprise customers who need extremely high computing capabilities for complex tasks. The ability to accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth of experience in UNIX methods and concepts."
Doesn't sound like an MP3 problem
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Bad MP3s don't "pop and hiss". They warble, like as if played underwater.
It's had it for a couple of years now. The whole Minneapolis area used to be 612, but now there's additionally 763 (north/northwest) and 952 (south/southwest). It doesn't sound that painful, but let me assure you, it's more than a minor pain. Even after two years, I still find numbers written places as the generic 612 and have to think about where they are to determine how to dial it (because the automated "this number is in the XXX area code now" is only temporary).
I heard an interview last night on NPR with the CEO and he mentioned that they were going to take a few "key" parts out before they sold it so that it would be impossible to fly.
With apple buying Emagic for their Logic Audio audio editing software (and cancelling the windows version) and buying NothingReal for their Shake compositing software (and cancelling the windows version), this could be a very interesting strategic move.
If they ever decided to move into selling the OS for x86, people with x86 hardware might be tempted to move over from Windows to using MacOS for the applications (e.g. all the pissed off Logic users).
Don't compare against mp3enc, compare against LAME
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"The best Fraunhofer products are less accurate than the Lame products."
This was the conclusion drawn by the infamous http://r3mix.net website. Wanna make Ogg look better than it really is? Don't compare it to the highest quality MP3 encoder.
I successfully hacked together a Linux command line MP3 player using the Winamp in_mp3.dll and some wine code. Wasn't that hard, it may be possible to do the same with WMA, except it may use more DLLs external to Winamp...
...if it detects all those annoying "me too" messages and treats them as spam.
-elan
Yet another language, yet another syntax (YELYAS)
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For god's sake, these scripting languages like Perl and Python are great, but why oh why much they all have their own special syntax? As a C/C++ programmer, it's hard for me to constantly context switch between different (but mostly equivalent) syntactical systems. I personally wish (and I know people are going to disagree with me) that Python and Perl looked a lot more like C++. Being different for the sake of being different (or because it's fun to be different) may make sense in some venues, but not with programming languages.
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Otherwise one virtual OS may free a physical page and the other one might allocate it and get remnants of data...assuming of course the OSes share physical memory to some degree.
-elan
But my point is, how is it innovating? By introducing yet another driver model? Open Source OSs need a common driver model, but that's another story. It seems like what the project has to offer is its innovative GUI, rather than the OS. So why not start with an established OS with established drivers, that have years of maturity, and provide a GUI for them? Or maybe someone can answer my question: what does the OS itself have that's innovative/impossible or hard to do with Linux/BSD*?
Questions: - Does it support antialiased rendering of TrueType fonts? - Why not use the ultra-stable Linux kernel, and add the GUI on top of that? It seems really dumb to write yet another kernel. What does AtheOS offer that Linux doesn't?
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Hi Gamester! (Cyberace1?) Gamester (one of the project managers of XBMC) is hardly an impartial observer. There are a number of features that Plex has that XBMC does not, and many report it to be more stable on their Macs. Not to mention he keeps misspelling my last name, which is "Feingold".
Come to the Plex forums (forums.plexapp.com) or download Plex to compare for yourself, but take his statements (posted under a pseudonym) with a grain of salt.
We liked what we saw when we were looking for a similar thing. It's not cheap, but it's much cheaper than comparable stuff, and it runs well. We had an eval cluster and they worked like a champ.
...produces awesome material. I started with a course on the history of evolution, and then took another one on biological anthropology, and I have to say, it was the first time ever that I found myself desiring a longer commute!!!
http://www.teach12.com/teach12.asp?ai=16281
Monkeys (and prosimians, their ancestors -- like a ring-tailed lemur) are not generally considered big tool users. Apes, however, are. Chimps use sticks to fish for termites, and in some cases have been taught to interact with a computer (matching symbols with pictures, for example).
Good stuff, much easier to set up and maintain than that SAN/NAS crap.
http://www.isilon.com/
And no, I don't work there.
The code that calculated all the spreadsheet dependencies and what cells needed to be recomputed, was pretty complicated, as you might imagine.
So they had the super-optimized version running in parallel with the dumb, calulate-every-cell-every-time engine, and then they'd compare the results.
In certain cases, like this one, the technique is useful, but it's neither revolutionary nor new.
-elan
Search on the usual suspect newsgroups and you'll find a "patch" that can easily be applied to Photoshop CS to turn the currency detection off.
The thing I've found is that if you type extremely quickly, and especially two of the same letter in a row, the Vaios are likely to miss the second keystroke. I thought it was a problem with my laptop, but the other ones in the store suffered from that problem as well.
Anyone else notice this?
Good deal available on Ebay and elsewhere, especially if you're willing to get a last-gen model.
They even chose to use the "yield" keyword. This is a way-cool feature of Python and now C#.
-elan
Yeah, it would be slow, but it would be cool to have the calculator running Mathematica.
"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation. This difference in memory management performance is very significant to enterprise customers who need extremely high computing capabilities for complex tasks. The ability to accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth of experience in UNIX methods and concepts."
Bad MP3s don't "pop and hiss". They warble, like as if played underwater.
It's had it for a couple of years now. The whole Minneapolis area used to be 612, but now there's additionally 763 (north/northwest) and 952 (south/southwest). It doesn't sound that painful, but let me assure you, it's more than a minor pain. Even after two years, I still find numbers written places as the generic 612 and have to think about where they are to determine how to dial it (because the automated "this number is in the XXX area code now" is only temporary).
I heard an interview last night on NPR with the CEO and he mentioned that they were going to take a few "key" parts out before they sold it so that it would be impossible to fly.
Shucks.
With apple buying Emagic for their Logic Audio audio editing software (and cancelling the windows version) and buying NothingReal for their Shake compositing software (and cancelling the windows version), this could be a very interesting strategic move.
If they ever decided to move into selling the OS for x86, people with x86 hardware might be tempted to move over from Windows to using MacOS for the applications (e.g. all the pissed off Logic users).
"The best Fraunhofer products are less accurate than the Lame products."
This was the conclusion drawn by the infamous http://r3mix.net website. Wanna make Ogg look better than it really is? Don't compare it to the highest quality MP3 encoder.
-elan
I successfully hacked together a Linux command line MP3 player using the Winamp in_mp3.dll and some wine code. Wasn't that hard, it may be possible to do the same with WMA, except it may use more DLLs external to Winamp...
...if it detects all those annoying "me too" messages and treats them as spam.
-elan
For god's sake, these scripting languages like Perl and Python are great, but why oh why much they all have their own special syntax? As a C/C++ programmer, it's hard for me to constantly context switch between different (but mostly equivalent) syntactical systems. I personally wish (and I know people are going to disagree with me) that Python and Perl looked a lot more like C++. Being different for the sake of being different (or because it's fun to be different) may make sense in some venues, but not with programming languages.
My 0.019$US
-elan
...with something really insightful, but I completely forgot what I was going to say. Damn it... -elan
Otherwise one virtual OS may free a physical page and the other one might allocate it and get remnants of data...assuming of course the OSes share physical memory to some degree. -elan
I bet this has to do with Microsoft's investment in Corel. "We'll give you the $$$...you guys wait for a little while, and then drop Linux."
But my point is, how is it innovating? By introducing yet another driver model? Open Source OSs need a common driver model, but that's another story. It seems like what the project has to offer is its innovative GUI, rather than the OS. So why not start with an established OS with established drivers, that have years of maturity, and provide a GUI for them? Or maybe someone can answer my question: what does the OS itself have that's innovative/impossible or hard to do with Linux/BSD*?
Questions: - Does it support antialiased rendering of TrueType fonts? - Why not use the ultra-stable Linux kernel, and add the GUI on top of that? It seems really dumb to write yet another kernel. What does AtheOS offer that Linux doesn't?